Eudora Welty Quotes
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
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In New York, the currency is money. You have money, and you get anonymity.
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I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.
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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
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I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.
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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
